ON the website of -
USAID/US U.S. Agency for International Development
Partners:
Open Society Institute Budapest
Geographic Targets:
FDI: All countries in SEE, Caucuses,
Central Asia and Moldova
LOGIN: Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia,
Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland,
Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine
Project Duration:
2003 – 2006
Activity Background
A stable, predictable stream of revenues is a prerequisite for strong local government that can be responsive to the needs of businesses and citizens. Open Society Institute, Budapest, implements a two-pronged program to facilitate this: the Fiscal Decentralization Initiative (FDI) and the Local Government Information Network (LOGIN). Multi-donor initiatives, FDI and LOGIN are supported by the World Bank Institute, UNDP, Open Society Institute and Council of Europe.
Core Interventions
FDI’s regional forums and publications:
Transfer regional experience and best practices in SEE and beyond.
Build a dialogue between national and local governments and NGOs.
Increase awareness and consensus for fiscal decentralization in Caucuses and Central Asia.
Masters in Public Policy (fiscal policy):
FDI fellowships students from the target region build capacity.
LOGIN serves as an internet-based clearinghouse for local government information. Partnering with a local anchor organization in each country, LOGIN collects and disseminates information in 33 topics and nine languages.
Activity Results
Successful FDI forums were held in SEE on property taxation and valuation, fiscal equalization, financing public education. The forums spawned continuing relationships, and a study trip between countries.
A request for follow-on in-depth technical assistance from the Government of Moldova was met.
LOGIN expanded to Central Asia– adding Kyrgyzstan, with Armenia and Georgia from the Caucuses imminent! Visits to the LOGIN site increased over 60% in a single year – to more than 300,000. The database has expanded from 5000 to 8000 documents.
LOGIN software management has been transferred to a local provider, a key step in future sustainability.
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACG377.pdf
No doubt glowing reports resulted from the Soros bought and paid for NGO’s at - Local Government and Public Service Reform Institute (LGI).
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of local governments as well as national and regional local government organizations who have made a commitment to sustainable development.
Founded in 1990 ICLEI was founded in 1990 as the ‘International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives’. The Council was established when more than 200 local governments from 43 countries convened at our inaugural conference, the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future, at the United Nations in New York - (Agenda 21 meeting).
OLD NAME - International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives’ became
NEW NAME (2003) Local Governments for Sustainability’ with a broader mandate to address sustainability issues.
Soros NGO Headquarters is called -
Local Government and Public Service Reform Institute
http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=about
Marxists are so picky about their labels esp. logos. NGO’s from his LGT have already rewritten most of their Agenda 21 policies in many of our states - all power to the oligarch.